Join us on Tuesday, September 8th at 6:30 p.m. at Auburn United Methodist Church for a conversation with Roger Thurow, hosted by Catherine Coleman Flowers as they discuss Roger’s new release Abiding Hunger. 

About Roger Thurow:

Roger is an author and journalist best known for his reporting on global hunger, agriculture, and food security. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Thurow spent 30 years as a reporter, including two decades based in Europe and Africa. In 2004 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for a their series on famine in Africa. He has written five books, and is the recipient of the Harry Chapin WhyHunger Media Award and Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. In 2020, he and his wife Anne moved to Auburn, where for two years Roger was a scholar-in-residence at Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute before plunging back into the books and writing Abiding Hunger.

About Catherine Coleman Flowers: 

Catherine Coleman Flowers is an internationally recognized environmental and climate justice advocate, author, and founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). A native of Lowndes County, Alabama, she has dedicated her career to addressing inequities in access to clean water, sanitation, and other essential infrastructure in rural and marginalized communities. Flowers is the author of two books: Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope. 

Abiding Hunger: An American Paradox

“After Hurricane Katrina exposed the poverty and want hidden within so many communities, Thurow began to understand that hunger was a much more widespread problem than America was willing to admit.

Thurow explores the history of hunger in America, from the Starving Time of Jamestown—when cannibalism nearly doomed the American experiment before it could begin—through the Trail of Tears, slavery that built an empire with stolen land and stolen labor, and Jim Crow segregation at the lunch counter. He shows how deeply hunger is woven into our present day, in which 38 million people—including 14 million children—are classified as “food insecure.”

Guests are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to the AUMC Good News Center to help fight hunger in the Auburn Community.